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The master plan has been public. https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

I wonder whether the donors to the foundation can tolerate a diet of goulash, paprikash and for that matter borscht. At least some of them must love their country.

The Heritage Foundation is an associate member of the State Policy Network, a network of conservative and libertarian organizations financed by the Koch brothers, Philip Morris, and other corporate sources. The board is a who's who of a-holes. https://www.heritage.org/board-trustees

https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-foundation-receives-25-million-gift

All concerned should be publicly asked whether Biden is the authentic president.

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Looking at the people on the board and recognizing none of them, I am reminded of Norman Mailer's coverage of the Republican National Convention years back and his surprise at looking at the best seats $ in the two front rows surrounding the platform and recognizing none of them. Mostly,they were corporate insurance executives. In both cases, only corrupt media compliance could have carried that out.

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And that is why we have the ACA, instead of Bernies Medicare for all.

Rahm Emanuel and Larry Summers are the enemy . Neo liberals who seek to privatize all agencies, except Defense and Police.

During the "sausage making" of the ACA only health insurance reps were let into or invited into the White House, and Pelosi, dear Nancy, excluded single payor advocates from testifying. So we have the ACA, as designed it was a gift to AHIP (Association of Health Insurance Providers)

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The kindest interpretation would be that Obama and Pelosi were desperate to get SOMETHING passed. I think it has amounted to SOMETHING. Where is that line, where you gave up the Perfect to where the Good didn't amount to much?

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That is the kindest interpretation, but I don't buy it for a minute. Because money in politics, and AHIP lobbyist represent a hell of a lot of money.

That B.S about "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is Rahm Emanuel swill.

The so called good is a poison pill, and left hundreds of millions without health care, and hundreds of milions more at the mercy of scams like United Health Care. Legislation is also needed to get rid of so called Option C in Medicare which is Medicare Disadvantage scheme.

They just finished Open Enrollment, and while it was open, every other commercial on TV was for so called Medicare Advantage, The poor suckers who believed the lies, find themselves actually having services denied, and paying a lot more than they were led to believe, and Medicare does not have coverage for Medicare D prescription drugs, if it does then you will have to pay extra. Meanwhile these insurance companies are ripping off Medicare to the tune of billions. And if you give your Medicare Number to them, they pass it on to subsidaries and they then bill Medicare for services not provided.

I did not enroll in Medicare Advantage and my Medicare number got compromised, I have one CPAP supplier, one Medical ctr, which is honest and non profit, and I saw two Eye specialists to remove cataracts. One of them gave or sold my Medicare number and it was either the supplier or one of the Eye Specialists, and I know who.

A company called Alexandria Durable Medical Supplies, charge Medicare $5,970 for incontinence supply's (catheters) I am not incontinent and never heard of this company

Two other companies, Southern Labs from Ala and another from Ohio charged Medicare to process self administered COVID tests, and have never taken or ordered a COVID test. I Have all COVID tests, live rural and only go to town to pick up mail and packages from a Private Mail service, and to shop are our one and only supermarket, and that is twice a week.

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Ed Meese was the highly controversial attorney general under Reagan, Kay Cole James was once head of OPM, the Office of Personnel Management. After the Office of Administrative Law Judges was closed I asked her why? She admitted that she wasn't aware she did it.

Robert George used to teach at Princeton. Does he emulate Orban, Putin?

You are correct that most are donors, but are also people who inherited great wealth.

Barb Van Andel-Gaby, chair, is related to Erik Prince, now expatriated to Abu Dhabi. His sister, Former Sec. of Education, Betsy DeVos, says she resigned after learning Pence wouldn't support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump in the wake of the Capitol riot. DeVos said she resigned after learning Trump wouldn't be removed from office via the 25th Amendment. https://www.businessinsider.com/betsy-devos-says-she-resigned-after-pence-refused-25th-amendment-2022-6#:~:text=Betsy%20DeVos%20says%20she%20resigned%20after%20learning%20Pence%20wouldn't,wake%20of%20the%20Capitol%20riot&text=DeVos%20said%20she%20resigned%20after,office%20via%20the%2025th%20Amendment.

I hope she will be a witness in the Trump DC case.

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Interesting that Liz, Betsy and their ilk, are now lionized because of their opposition to Trumps attempt to over throw the Constitution, yet these are the same people who have enabled Trump, just like Bill Barr who enabled Trump from the start, until he realized in Dec 2020 that he was wrong footed.

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I don't understand the last sentence.

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The basis was that the election was a fraud. How many are in denial? Who?

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